What If.....RJJ had stayed at HW in 2003...

he would have gotten a dangerous beating off lewis, klitchskos or any HW who could bang. even mentioning him being in the same ring as lewis is a joke. he would have been carried out ,anyone who says different is an idiot.
this is why i dont consider jones to have been the heavyweight champion, the way he won it was opportunistic at best, run up, fight the smallest and worst boxer to hold a belt and then run back twice as fast.

 

Some one who dodged his manditory Tua was not very sure of himself...dodged Vitili too.

Byrd was more trouble than he was worth at 50%.
Tyson might have showed up in shape...

I was surprised he didn't want to fight Holy...

 

byrd was possibly the most likely fighter he'd have beaten there. due to their somewhat similar sizes.

a very faded tyson of the etienne win would be 60/40 jones imo. tyson would be very dangerous for 2-3 rounds and could possible KO jones with a single punch in that 9 minutes. past that, tyson probably gets frustrated.

i think he can beat rahman whose always been mediocre. he can pot shot 'ol rock to death and rahman coukd'nt do anything about it.

he beats a shot holy too, who lost to toney the following year. holy too sluggish.

toney was still a cruiser at this point, but jones would probably do the same to him, like he did in '94.


rjj would get wrecked by super hvy's. lennox, vitali and wlad knock him out. i'd favor corrie sanders too for being a south paw with quick hands. tua could probably still go the 12 at this point and maintain decent activity, he'd have a good chance too.

thinking back, there were quite a few hvy's he'd have beaten. would have been better for his career imo had he stayed there.

 

jesus if he'd signed to fight tyson believing he was washed up then tyson turned up in shape and motivated, imagine roys face.

 

Roy Jones was always overrated. He would have been put in a wheelchair by a decent Heavyweight.

 

:yep

 

:verysad Not true..

 

If he had stuck to smaller HW's only, like Byrd he would have fared well and increased his status.

I honestly think he should have hand picked a couple of low risk defences of his WBA belt and then retired.

He had would have been very badly hurt by a bigger HW. Sanders, Klitschko and even Tyson would need to be avoided IMO.

 

in hind sight, it was an odd decision. tarver was really the only guy there worth fighting, and even then, wins over byrd and a couple more hvy's would have been better legacy wise. a tyson fight could have broken the PPV sales of lewis - tyson. it would have been a huge money spinner. considering jones was driven by money, the risk was minimal. roy's hubris was the catalyst for going back down, as he probably thought he could still clean out that division.

 

There is a reason he did not stay. There are not many John Ruiz type fighters with no skill to handpick and the public would have demanded he fight someone with a pulse after a while and Jones was no going to do that. Roy knows he would have gotten his Glass Jaw shattered at Heavyweight.

 

I think Chris Byrd would have given him fits.

One of the main reasons why he beat Ruiz was because he is a slow plodder - Chris Byrd around that time could hardly be described in that manner.

 

jones himself said he would of loved a fight vs Tyson , roy knew he was in neck deep when he moved up and it was never about him taking over the division , more for history making which is why beating ruiz for the title then what would off been a big money fight with tyson then that would off been it , i mean who else would he of had a chance against chris byrd prehaps but lewis and the klitches forget about it. i could never understand why he needed to move back down after sitting on top off the world. in hindsight he should of risked a Ko loss to one of the heavys in another history making fight instead of LHW Tarver. i think a fight vs aging Holyfield would off been a good one for jones and a good chance off him getting the win.